Anthony James, vice president of products at Fortinet, said the company decided to offer a free version of its software because any unprotected client "should be considered an imminent threat".

"It's not enough to offer minimal protection for endpoints or for just the ones touching the networks, which is why we're making the latest FortiClient product with enterprise-level security available to everyone," he said in a statement.

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